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Parenting Adopted Children With Challenging Behavior

For adoptive parents of children with challenging behavior.

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children with diagnosis of bipolar

My grandson is being treated for bipolar with many prescriptions. Anyone out there with advice would be welcome. He also has SEVERE anxiety. He was born with drugs in his…
- Posted by debc to Parenting Adopted Children With Challenging Behavior on May 02, 2018 at 2:37pm | 4 Comments | Post a reply
Wanting to connect

Hello, I just found this website and am wondering if there are others still on this group? The last posts were last year. I’m a parent of an adopted 13…
- Posted by Loren388 to Parenting Adopted Children With Challenging Behavior on Mar 25, 2018 at 11:20am | 0 Comments | Post a reply
RAD Success Stories?

We are facing a dilemma, and I would appreciate feedback from this adoption community, if you can help. I am interested in hearing from any families who have…
- Posted by Marmee to Parenting Adopted Children With Challenging Behavior on Oct 09, 2017 at 7:29pm | 8 Comments | Post a reply
How Can I Help My Daughter?

We have a 13 year old daughter (moved in at age 10/adopted at age 12). Our adoption is closed. Termination was involuntary and contact is not allowed. Her first mother…
- Posted by shininglight71 to Parenting Adopted Children With Challenging Behavior on Jul 11, 2017 at 8:28pm | 6 Comments | Post a reply
Fighting therapy

Our teen adopted boy has been in CBT for 2 years. He states that he no longer wants to go to therapy and becomes a different person on therapy days.…
- Posted by Secret94 to Parenting Adopted Children With Challenging Behavior on Mar 03, 2017 at 4:09pm | 6 Comments | Post a reply
How do you live with the constant stress??

Here’s the scenario: 8 year old boy, adopted from foster care at 15 months along with 3 year old full sister. He was removed from BP at 8 days old…
- Posted by housefrau to Parenting Adopted Children With Challenging Behavior on Jan 04, 2017 at 6:32am | 9 Comments | Post a reply
Any suggestions?

There is never a dull moment in our home but when things begin to run smoothly, I always look for the shoe to drop, and it did. We only allow…
- Posted by shininglight71 to Parenting Adopted Children With Challenging Behavior on Aug 16, 2016 at 7:29pm | 5 Comments | Post a reply
teen brings bb gun into our house without permission

Hello, I’m hoping some of you might have some experience with this. Our adopted teen (adopted at 13) daughter has been very challenging from the start. Despite a lot of…
- Posted by western mom to Parenting Adopted Children With Challenging Behavior on Aug 09, 2016 at 6:25pm | 6 Comments | Post a reply